Hardware Meetup Newsletter (April 2025)
Global updates for events, hiring, and community open mic features.
Hello Fellow Hardware Pros!
You’re receiving this email because you’ve recently attended a Hardware Meetup event. With so much happening across 35+ cities and 30,000 members, we want to better connect cities with a monthly newsletter. If this isn’t for you, feel free to unsubscribe below.
In this newsletter you’ll find:
Opportunity Spotlight: Invite to First Consumer Hardware Virtual Summit! (Go to Market + Prep for CES 2026)
Recap of Last Month’s Events
Hardware Hiring Features
Community Open Mic
Upcoming Events
We’re grateful for you helping make this community the best hardware community for professionals!
Enjoy!
1. You’re invited to our first Consumer Hardware Virtual Summit! June 18th (GTM + Prep for CES 2026)
Our largest event each year is at CES co-hosted with informal. To prep for CES 2026, we’re inviting you—and members from every city—to join for our first virtual summit on June 18th! Sessions feature Kickstarter, informal, founders, investors, and more to discuss the latest go to market strategies that you can use right now for your business.
You get the first chance at an early bird ticket, as the page goes public next week.
All ticket proceeds go to the Hardware Meetup community and prep for our CES 2026 party.
2. Recent Meetup Recaps
This month was full of great meetups!
121st SF Hardware Meetup meets tonight part of SF Climate Tech Week at Sofar Ocean to discuss maritime and ocean innovation with 300+ RSVPs.
105th NY Hardware Meetup gathered 300+ people at Viam with Voltaic Systems!
56th Boston Hardware Meetup had 250+ join for a Climate Tech themed event hosted at Greentown Labs.
15th Zürich Hardware Meetup discussed silicon additive manufacturing, 3d printing, and artificial lungs at Switzerland Innovation Park Zurich.
7th Bridgeport Hardware Meetup holding it down at Soundview with Wright One in their monthly meetup.
2nd Sydney Hardware Meetup brought together 150+ people at The Onset to talk all things funding for hardware startups.
London Hardware Happy Hour after Hardware Pioneers MAX co-hosted with Blazon Agency at Old Queens Head for a 100+ person event.
Philly Hardware Happy Hour was the first event for the city community with Solid Product Design hosting 🎉
Onshape's Toronto Product Design Happy Hour gathered 100+ hardware professionals with talks from Spin Master, Inertia, and Onshape.
NY Deep Tech Week Happy Hour brought together founders and builders at Makelab during Deep Tech Week.
3. Hardware Hiring Features
(SF Bay Area) Electrical Engineer @ Figure
(SF Bay Area) Electrical Engineer - Robotics @ Ample
(SF Bay Area) Lead Test Automation Engineer - Hardware @ Sofar Ocean
(SF Bay Area) Senior Electrical Engineer @ Astranis Space Technologies
(SF Bay Area) AI Robotics Research Engineer @ Nimble
(NY) Level II Electrical Design Engineer @ Tomorrow Lab
(NY) Experienced Hardware Design Engineer @ HRT
(NY) Automation and Integration Engineer @ Real Chemistry
(Boston) Staff Electrical Engineer (NPI) @ Whoop
(Boston) Electrical Engineer @ Formlabs
(Boston) Senior Hardware Design Engineer (Hybrid) @ Medtronic
4. Global Community Open Mic
Hari is hiring founding robotics Engineering Lead to build industrial autonomous mobile robots.
Sophie is looking for mechanical and mechatronics engineers who’ve taken products to full production for an AI Tennis Machine.
Jaguar shares Bird, a 3D pointing technique in VR for selecting and manipulating objects based only on hand pose.
5. Upcoming Hardware Meetup Events
If you don’t see an event page yet, it will be up shortly. Most are shared a couple weeks prior.
Women in SF Hardware (Dinner @ Studio 55 w/ Fellow) (April 29)
1st Charlotte Hardware Meetup @ Bravo Team (April 30)
106th NY Hardware Meetup @ Cornell Tech (May 8)
1st Berlin Hardware Meetup @ MotionLab (May 14)
10th SJ Hardware Meetup in Mountain View @ AuSIM Garage (May 20)
122nd SF Hardware Meetup @ Studio 45 (May 22)
2nd Boise Hardware Meetup @ Trailhead (June 4)
Thanks for joining for this monthly recap!
See you at an upcoming hardware meetup,
Nate + Michael from Hardware Meetup
Ps. If you have feedback on what you’d like to see more of or ideas to improve, please reply back.